A sangre y fuego. Antonio Royo Villanova, maestro de administrativistas y de anticatalanistas

Abstract

This article examines the ideological trajectory of the Professor, journalist, politician and writer Antonio Royo Villanova, and its position in relation to Catalonian nationalism. Influential author in the field of administrative law, Royo Villanova showed a persistent anticatalanist speech throughout his journalistic and political career. His furious anti-catalanism made him one of the most popular politicians of the Second Republic. After his death, his political thinking was forgotten, although his conception of the Spanish administrative law was possibly the most influential in the Spanish academy during the first half of the twentieth century. His political thought between the advocates of Unitarianism and his journalistic and academic legacy have been very large. It was a regenerationist, a relevant academic, an advocate of administrative decentralization, provided that it does not question the Spanish union, a politician who became a minister and a master for both anti-catalanist, and professors in administrative law.